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1945 edition |
1973 edition |
| They... |
avoid the snake and leave. |
already left in last chapter. |
| Lt. Masters... |
comes to the Drews for dinner. |
no such event. |
| The next day... |
the officer and Nancy examine the will. Hector Keep is the executor. |
Nancy does this alone. |
| Then... |
They visit Mrs. Fenimore. She describes her sister, Florianna. She doesn't like Hector Keep. She asks for Nancy's help. |
Mrs. Fenmore says the same things except for Hector Keep and asking Nancy for help. |
| Then... |
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Nancy sees Teddy being nasty to a dog. Nancy and George goe to visit Salty who takes them on a boat and go to the button factory. They spot two guys and the boat that had hit them before. |
The stories are beginning to diverge quite a bit, so I'll shift to a different form of summarizing events.
Chapter 6
1945: She talks to Mrs. Fenimore some more. She leaves and sees Jeddy Hooker being nasty to a dog. She then visits Mehearty's. Nancy and George go with him in a boat. He gets some clams and tosses them into the boat. George's dress and hands are stained. He explains the dye is from a whelk. They get to the button factory and see two strange men and the boat that had hit them.
1973: The girls get to the factory. The men flee. There's an explosion. Salty comes running. Nancy is rescued. Nancy later talks to her father. He offers to go to the factory with Nancy.
Chapter 7
1945: The events that happen are the same is in chapter 6 of the 1973 version.
1973: Nancy and her father visit the factory. Nancy finds part of a message. She finds out more about Walter Heath. Her father talked to Daniel Hector but found out nothing new. Later Nancy, George and Bess go to the castle and encounter some nasty dogs. Nancy and George climb over the wall but Bess remains behind. They explore the grounds and find some damage done by a pick-ax. They wade in some water and keep some shells. Daniel Hector, the executor, arrives. Bess sneaks into his car.
Chapter 8
1945: The same things happen that happened in the 1973 chapter 7 up through her father's talk with Hector. Nancy pilots a plane over the castle and spots smoke. Ned Nickerson is in South America. Later Nancy, George and Bess go to the castle and find a no-trespassing sign.
1973: Nancy and George separate. Bess leaves the car, is chased by the hounds, and takes refuge in a tree. George's clothes are stolen by the young punk. Nancy explores and gets trapped in one of the castle's towers. She overhears the grown-up crooks. The dogs leave and Bess comes down from her tree and meets George. They climb out over the wall.
Chapter 9
1945: George and Bess go to the castle and encounter some nasty dogs. Nancy and George climb over the wall but Bess remains behind. They explore the grounds and find some damage done by a pick-ax. They wade in some water and keep some shells. Daniel Hector, the executor, arrives. Bess sneaks into his car. (From chapter 7 of the 1973 version)
1973: Nancy finally manages to escape. She runs into George and says Bess is not with her. Nancy's father arrives. They return to their home. He knows a doctor who treated the missing woman and has an idea where she might be.
Chapter 10
1945: Nancy and George separate. There's another explosion. Nancy explores the castles and from a tower window she sees the young brat with George's clothes.
1973: Nancy gets a letter from Ned. She and her father visit Mrs. Fenimore. She visits Teddy's mother and his mother is a very nasty person. Nancy and her father head for the town where Julianna might be. They separate. She finds out some valuable information, but is followed.
Chapter 11
1945: Nancy gets trapped in the tower. She overhears some crooks. Bess gets down from the tree. Bess finds George. They climb over the wall and leave the grounds.
1973: The guy that trailed Nancy is caught by Mr. Drew and questioned. Nancy arranges for the thug to be trailed. Hector had talked to Mrs. Fenimore and upset her greatly. Nancy meets with George and Bess and catches them up on what has been happening. Nancy might have a clue to whatever it is that is hidden.
Chapter 12
1945: Nancy escapes from the tower and makes her way to the car. Mr. Drew arrives. They go home and Mr. Drew reveals he says he may know where the missing woman might be.
1973: Nancy explains the clue. Salty has come for a visit. She talks to Weatherby and he tells her a little about Walt. The lawyer had sold Weatherby some jewelry and Nancy thinks it might be stolen. She gets a report from the policeman that trailed the thug that had trailed Nancy. The three girls meet Salty and go to the castle via a water route. Nancy finds an entrance to a section of the castle grounds they want to check out.
Chapter 13
1945: She gets a letter from Ned in South America. Nancy and her father visit Mrs. Fenimore. Nancy sees the brat's mother and she's really nasty. She and her father go to Hampton and separate. Nancy does a lot of research and finally finds a woman that might be able to help her.
1973: The girls examine a passageway. The crooks are nearby. Nancy finds a metal box and takes the items from it. They provide proof Hector has been robbing the estate. She also finds a diary. The crooks are about to break into the area the girls are in.
Chapter 14
1945: Nancy talks to Mrs. Delbert and finds out a lot of stuff about the missing woman. She also finds out where the woman could be. Nancy goes to the town and to the police station. The town gossip is there, Mrs. Speyer. She mentions about a woman that came to the town some ten years before and had been in an auto accident. Nancy finds out the woman might have used an assumed name.
Nancy is told to talk to 'Old Joe,' the hospital's custodian, a black. They talk and he uses the stereotyped black language. The missing woman could be crippled. Nancy is trailed and Mr. Drew opens the door and the man falls in. (This part was in chapter 11 of the 1973 edition)
1973: The brat tells the crooks someone may be inside the grounds. They find a fountain that has good-tasting water, and a carving about Cinderella. The three end up being chased by the crooked lawyer.
Chapter 15
1945: Mr. Drew questions the guy while Nancy arranges for someone to follow him. The policeman will pretend to have a limp (in the 1973 version he pretended to have a bad cough.) Nancy later visits Mrs. Fenimore who is upset from a visit by the lawyer. They find a clue in a picture of the original Heath Castle. (This was in chapter 11 of the 1973 version)
1973: The girls escape. They encounter Lt. Masters. The woman is sure Teddy is a thief himself. The group encounters more police and take a boat to the Castle to search for Salty. They find him; he had been attacked by the crooks. Nancy's father has found a woman that can tell Nancy about the missing woman.
Chapter 16
1945: They talk to Mehearty about a cloister at the old castle. Nancy shows him some whelk shells that might be involved in a kind of dye that could be valuable. He tells her to talk to Weatherby and she does. She finds out about jewelry the lawyer sold him. The girls later meet Mehearty and take his boat to the castle.
1973: Nancy talks to Mrs. Fenimore. The Hoopers have moved. She realizes the father is one of the crooks at the castle. She and her father talks to the police about the guy. Then they go to a hospital and talk to someone who knew Julianna. Nancy figures where the woman might be.
Chapter 17
1945: The girls find the cloister. They hear the crooks nearby. Nancy finds a hidden box.
1973: They find a flower shop where the missing woman might be. They find out the woman has been kidnapped. The crooked lawyer is trying to pass another woman off as the missing woman. Nancy talks to Mrs. Fenimore and tells her her sister has been kidnapped. The two go to see the fake woman. Nancy returns home and is also kidnapped.
Chapter 18
1945: They find a photo in the box and other things, and information that shows the lawyer has been stealing things from the estate. They also find a diary. They again hear the crooks nearby. (This was covered in chapter 13 in the 1973 edition)
1973: Nancy escapes upstairs. She calls the police and finds Hannah bound and gagged. She and the other two girls decide to return to Heath Estate, Nancy thinking that Julianna is hidden there. They find the woman and she finally admits she's Julianna. She decides to fix the estate and turn it into a place for handicapped children. The crooks trap them all.
Chapter 19
1945: The brat shows up and tells the crooks about intruders. They drink some water from a fountain. They then find the Cinderella's slipper structure. They get to the castle, are seen by the lawyer, and flee.
1973: George has brought a police whistle with her and uses that. Nancy talks to Julianna who ends up fainting. The police arrive, including Lt. Masters. They have captured the lawyer and the other crooks. The lawyer is completly defiant. The two crooks rat the lawyer out. Julianna recognizes him as her kidnapper.
Chapter 20
1945: The girls encounter Lt. Master's in her car. Masters tells her that the young kid is a thief at heart. There are plans to send Joan to a farm and get her away from the kid's influence. Lt. Masters, Bess and George go to get on a boat to go back to Heath Castle and find Mehearty. Mehearty tells the police how the crooks attacked him. Nancy has stayed behind and talked to her father who has a lead on the missing woman.
1973: Juliana and her sister Mrs. Fenimore are reunited. The estate as it stands is worth almost nothing. Nancy goes back to it and remembers the water fountain. The water is tested and it can be bottled and sold due to its mineral content. She also contacts a company that is interested in the whelk shells.
The story then jumps a year ahead. The castle and grounds are in better shape. Handicapped kids are being helped. Joan is also there and helping out. The brat Teddy is in a 'special school' where he is supposedly doing well. A valuable pearl is found and returned to Julianna.
The 1973 book ends with chapter 20, so the next part will be summaries of the last five chapters of the 1945 edition.
Chapter 21
Arrangements are made for Joan to spend some time on a farm. Her father goes to the police station to report on what Nancy had seen and heard at Heath Castle. Nancy and her father visit Mrs. Fenimore who says the Hookers have moved away. She says Joan won't need to go away to a farm. They consult the police about one of the men Nancy ran into at the estate.
Bess and George go to the Drew's place, but Nancy and her father have already left. Hannah tells them Mehearty said he heard that someone plans to have Nancy arrested. A policeman arrives with a warrant that night.
Nancy and her father find out more about Julianna. They are also told about a possible link to a flower shop.
Chapter 22
Nancy and her father drive up to the town and find out a Miss Flower is a recluse. They find out she's been kidnapped. They find out about Hector's claim to have the rightful woman inheritor. Nancy later visits Mrs. Fenimore. Mrs. Fenimore, Nancy and Joan all go to see the supposed inheritor. They realize the woman is a fake. Nancy drives towards home, stops at the police station, and they tell her they have a warrant for her arrest.
Chapter 23
The warrant is for trespassing. They try to clear things up but Hector is not available, so Nancy is allowed to go home if she promises to return the next morning. The next morning she meets with Lt. Masters and goes to Heath Castle with other policemen being stationed outside the grounds.
They find a dungeon and Florianna imprisoned in a cell. She talks about her background and says she's like to turn the castle into a 'beauty spot.' (No mention is made of making it a place for handicapped kids.) They all end up trapped in the dungeon.
Chapter 24
Lt. Masters is the one who uses the police whistle. Florianna faints. The other policemen rescue them. The two thugs have been captured and are in handcuffs. Keep is also there. He's totally defiant. The thugs rat him out and Florianna calls for Keep's arrest.
Chapter 25
The sisters are reunited. Nancy meets with Mehearty the next day. They go to the castle area beach and he digs for clams and finds lot of them. They are the ones with the valuable dye in them. Notes are found about the dye. Mr. Drew provides money for start-up and the button factory gets going again. Mehearty helps with the clams and a chemist helps with formulas for the dyes.
The water from the fountain has curative properties, especially for bone disorders, and is thus another source of income. Some time later we find out that crippled children are at the estate (a point picked up in the 1973 version). Jeddy, the brat, continued his life of crime and got sent to a 'special school.' Mr. Drew restores to Florianna a missing pearl that Walt had meant for her.
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